## Read me for Replication Data for: "Historical Census of Monks and Nuns in Tibetan Monasteries, ca. 1642-1923" ##

Karl Ryavec, UC Merced
Rocco Bowman, UC Merced

Principle Contact for this data set: Rocco Bowman rbowman2@ucmerced.edu

This data set contains the base data necessary to prepare the tabular census data and calculate area of farmland,
population, demographic ratios, and more.

Use: There are only two scripts here. The first script "01_census_cleaning" pulls in the original census data spreadsheet, 
cleaning it and adding information to make it compatible for a spatial join (in the next script). This script can be
run in python and is a stand alone script.

The ther script "02_qgis_calculation" takes in the prepared tabular data, joins it to fortress points, creates analysis
polygons, joins farmland data, and ultimately estimates total population given X amount of farmland. This script must
be run within QGIS 3 within the Python console and is not a stand alone script.

